A FALSE ACCUSATION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 18

A FALSE ACCUSATION

At wT* Sw? US dofect wl.oW tho, statlo" «c in with over- ;™ g/ Ol™IC ' on}y t0 f«d<» away tlie-upxt £bw minutes to almost totnl inaudibility, and this S oe-"a°f effce continued throughout the evoniSc iion^fT" appar°tvS WaS t0 Si I consulted several friends, who said ?T«! Vero same'experience and my earlier opinion that the station was to blame was endorsed late in the evening when reports were read fro n the stations, some of which said that fading was very bad. It is to be.hoped this very serious defect will bo overcome, though it must be admitted it was not so bad on the following cvon'™f • : Q^ 1?0? fadi"g was at its woist on Saturday many local listeners found they had better reception by 'f*, c n\ ng. *°, the relay f ™™ Auckland e^t?wlmSn!^ lllbylisteni»^ diWellington's new station has enough .Warao to carry witliout being held responsible for fading as well. It is curious .that listeners do not learn from &US^ CtS that the fading which tioublos them is not the fault of the transmitter, save in very rare cases, and that any station at a distance may fado badly, the causo being atmospheric and beyond human control Tlio last sentonco in tlio quotation is, in tact, evidence of the fallacy in the rest or. it. If tho fading was duo to tho transmitter it must havo affected the relays as well as direct recoption In point of fact, Wellington listeners found the Auckland relay fading and tho Uinstehurch one steady.